Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-06-24
WHOLE NUMBER 1884.
GENERAL NEWS.
Refuses to Go.

GENERAL NEWS.
Refuses to Go.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-John N.
Oliver, whom President Cleveland re-
moved from the position of Justice of
the Peace for the District of Columbia
in April last, still continues to sign
his name as Justice of the Peace, and
has refused to surrender his Office to
Gen. John Evans, formerly of Brook
lyn, N. Y, who was appointed to sue
ceed him. Oliver, in letters to the
President and Attorney General, de-
nies the right of the President to re-
move him, and claims that such re-
moval can be effected only for cause,
and then by the Supreme Court of the
District. After due notice he also re-
quests that the order of removal be re-
voked.
The case is referred to the court
named for trial. The Attorney Gen
eral, in his reply, states that this
method of appointing to and removing
from Office the Justices of Peace was
changed by subsequent enactment,
and that the President acted wholly in
accordance with the law. The Probate
| Courts will have to settle the matter.
A White Man Cemplaias Bseasss He
| Casnet Ride with Negroes.
ATLANTA, May 31.-A suit for dam
ages has been instituted under the
Civil Rights bill against the Central
railroad. The complainant is white
man, Col. ]. N. Hale, of Henry county,
who is aggrieved because he is not al
lowed to ride in the " Jim Crow" car
as the coach set aside for negroes is
called. He claimed his ticket entitled
him to ride anywhere on the train.
The conductor did not take this view
Of the case and had Colonel Hale
elected from the train. For this in
jury Hale claims 81, 500 damages.
Tho Coed News Killed Her.
LEWISTON, Idaho, June 16.-Mrs.
Margaret Powell, Of Samaria, dropped
dead the other day as she was prepar-
ing to 60 to church. She had received
notice of the allowa ace of $12 per
month, and notice that $2,4l5 of the
same would be sent on receipt OF pro-
per vouchers. Her husband had served
during the late war. Her death is
supposed to have been the result OF ex-
citement over her good news.
Suspicious Certificates
SAN FRANCISCO, June7-In the case
of a Chinaman named Yee Tsan, who
wanted to land on a certificate issued
at Port Townsend, nov OH hearing be-
fore Judge Hoffman, it appears that
between January II and 20, 1885, the
number of certificates, which were sup
posed to be in consecutive order, make
jump from 2,547 to 3,548, creating
suspicion that 1000 certificates were
fraudulently disposed Of. A Chinaman
attempted to come in on one of these
certificates, and the matter is now be-
ing investigated. Suspicion naturally
falls on some ex-official of the Port
Townsend Custom House.
Eighty Thousa.d Destitute and starv-
Ing.
Boston, June 15.-The American
board OF foreign missions has received
tidings of a terrible famine in Asia
Minor, bordering on the Mediterranean,
and embracing the ancient cities of
Tarsus and Adana, owing to lack of
rain. The section contains over 1OO,-
600 inhabitants, of whom 10000 are
able to find a living without help, but
$4,000 are destitute and cannot be
kept from starvation unless aid is
brought to them from without.
Hop Prospects.
SAN Francisco, June, ia prom
inent merchant said yesterday that
California hops are not as good as they
appeared 10 be ten or twelve days ago.
In Oregon" he continued, hops are
reported to be looking very well. The
yards in general are in good condition
and very good yield is promised. In
Washington Territory, too, / think the
yield will be good, although am not
SO we'll posted and my advices are not
as good as those from Oregon. Sam
uel Johnson, who had Just returned
from an inspection of the yards of
Hon. Ezra Meeker, the hop king. and
other yards of the Puyallup and White
river valleys, in Washington Territory
reports that they are in highly pros
porous condition, and that there will
be good, big yield up there. He said
Everywhere l went noticed the fine,
thrifty condition of the vines. They
are also free from pests of any sort
and altogether give promise of about
the best yield that has been known
there for long time. Hops, both in
Oregon and Washington Territory,
will bring growers in very large sums
of money; the yield is so good.
Swept BY . Fearful cyclsns.
| GRAND FORKS, Oak, June 18.-This
city was visited with destructive tor.
nado yesterday. The storm came
from the west and travelled due east.
Twenty-Five or more buildings, includ-
ing the Catholic church and Uniyer-
sity of North Dakota, were blown to
the ground. The laboratory and mu-
scum in the university were almost to-
tally destroyed, besides hundreds of
smaller dwellings, storehouses and
sheds. Four persons were killed out
right and fourteen others were seri-
ously, perhaps fatally, injured. Gen.
eral havoc prevailed all through the
city.
IN EAST GRAND FORKS
Fourteen business buildings were
destroyed. All the bridges on the Red
river at this point were swept away.
Loss half million dollars.
[Grand Forks is q city of about
1900 inhabitants, located on the St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba rail-
road and the Red river, sixty miles
north of Fargo, Dakota. The city is
surrounded by one of the most fertile
sections of country in the United
States, but it seems destined to eternal
destruction. For the past two years
the promising harvests of Grand
Forks and adjoining counties have
been actually pounded into the earth
by the fearful hailstorms that have
visited that section. Hailstones rs
large as apples have rained down upon
the broad acres and waving grain
fields, until not stalk of grain was